ICal automatically publishing calendar

I suddenly had LOTS of "Personal" calendars on my iCal today. I thought it had something to do with Pocket Mac synching and went through and deleted all but the "Personal" calendar I've been adding entries to. I just looked up, and iCal has automatically added 2 "Personal" calendars. Anybody have thoughts? Thanks!

Wrong nomenclature -- should have said "adding" (rather than "publishing").

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Having upgraded my iPhone4 & iPad to iOS5 and my iMac to OSX 10.7.2, I have been having trouble with duplicate calendar entries. Unfortunately, having deleted all but one calendar from the iCloud web interface, I heeded the mistaken advice to disable Calendars in the iCloud preference pane on the iMac and it deleted the calendars that had been removed from iCould from the iMac as well.
A few false starts later, I was able, after disconnecting all my devices from the net, to restore my iCal calendars with TimeMachine from before the chaos started then exported them as .ics files. After rebooting and re-enabling the network to the iMac, iCloud sync purged the restored calendars from iCal again, so I imported the .ics files into iCal and published them again, but the publish options only include MobileMe or a private server, so I chose MobileMe. iCal now happily shows all my calendars on the iMac again, but the iCloud web Calendar app can't see them.
How can I get iCloud to see the published iCal calendars again?

Solved, I think! What you need to do is log on to your icloud account at www.icloud.com, go to the calendar screen, click the gearwheel and choose New Calendar. Create a calendar here (ie up on the iCloud) with the name you want for your imported calendar data. Then switch to iCal - you may have to quit and relaunch for the new iCloud calendar to appear (or it will probably do so automatically if you wait long enough) then import the data using File->Import->Import... When you get to the step where it asks which calendar you want to import the data into, choose the new iCloud calendar you've just created. Job done!
To be complete in my answer, I don't think you can exactly do what you want to do, at least not at present. There doesn't seem to be any way to publish a calendar to iCloud after the first time you set up iCloud on your Mac when it exports any calendar data that is on the Mac at that time. I suppose that Apple feel that the way I have described works by exporting from one calendar and importing into another, so no need to provide a way of doing it directly.

ICal is publishing holidays in addition to calendar to Outlook

I am using a utility called "iCal to Outlook" which picks up a published calendar from MobileMe and imports it into Outlook. I find it a great way to consolidate my personal calendar into Outlook at work, in order to see all events, and avoid double-booking.
However, for some reason, iCal seems to be "publishing" not only the calendar I have selected and designated to be published, but it is also including the Holiday calendar that I have subscribed to. The good news is that Outlook seems to recognize this and strips out the holidays and places them in the "Deleted Items" folder. The bad news is that at each scheduled update, Outlook goes thru this process and the cursor blinks the entire time while some 60 or so holidays are processed and placed in the trash, not to mention that this loads up the trash folder. Also, the holidays don't show up in MobileMe, since they are not supposed to. Is this a bug introduced in an upgrade to allow publishing of subscribed calendars?
Any idea why iCal is adding the Holidays to my published Calendar?
Dave

Hello,
There is a simple utility called "iCal to Outlook" which is a plugin for Outlook.
First you publish your calendar(s) to MobileMe or to a server, then you point the plugin in Outlook to go retrieve the published calendar at whatever frequency you desire. If you set the iCal publish preference to "automatically update" and the Outlook frequency to hourly or something, it will work just like synching to an iPhone or any other Apple device.

ICal won't update published calendar

I have a published calendar on .Mac and when I update in iCal, it won't update on my .Mac account. Also it shows that the published date is Dec 31, 1969. I have checked my date and time on system preferences. I have deleted and recreated this calendar, and it has not solved the problem. I have even unpublished and published several times, all to no avail. I have iCal 2.0.2 installed. Anyonw else come across this problem?
Thanks.

When you publish, is "Publish changes automatically" checked? This would explain why updates don't happen. Also in .Mac system preferences under the "Sync" tab, there is a choice of how often to sync. Even if this is set to "Automatically" the sync isn't instant. Check this setting. I don't know if it affects published calendars or not, but worth checking nonetheless.
I wonder if in the Date and Time system preference ("Date & Time" tab) you have "Set date & time automatically" Checked?
Mine publish fine, no problem: http://ical.mac.com/dancingbrook/Social
Still no solution for web To Dos though perhaps via a webDAV server? Try:
http://www.icalx.com/
Also, can I assume you've tried trashing your ical preferences? ~/Library/Preerences/com.apple.iCal.plist

Publishing calendar changes automatically fails

Switching from iCal on 10.4 to iCal 3.3 on 10.5.3 I've hit a problem publishing an iCal calendar to a "private" server (not .mac). When I go to the "Change Location" dialogue and hit the Publish button, all is fine. But automatic updates fail (Code 30). So to keep my published calendar up to date I have to remember to go to "Change Location" and hit the Publish button, which is not so great.
On the server side I'm using PHP iCalendar. It all worked fine on 10.4.

I have the same problem! I publish a cal to my server (Apache WebDav) and it works when I publish it initially but subsequent saves do not get updated. I have to do it manually which is a PITA.
Krreagan

Publish calendars in iCal 4.0.4?

In one of the recent upgrades, iCal changed from publishing calendars to "sharing" them. I want to embed an html snippet with my iCal in it, but if I can no longer publish my calendar it won't work. Is there a way in iCal 4.0.4 to publish a calendar, or at least embed a calendar in my iWeb? The way all of Apple's other programs interface so easily, I'd think this would be simple to do, so I hope I'm missing something here.

Also looking to "Share" the content of an iCal calendar to my regular website. Since upgrading my calendars my previous solution using InstaCal stopped working. Anyone have an answer ??????

ICal won't publish calendar to mobileMe... ideas?

I've used iCal for years but since the changeover to me.com I can't get my iCal calendars to publish. When I click on "Publish calendar" it says it's published successfully, but when I click on the visit page button I get "page not found" error message.
Anybody have any ideas?
MJM

bnance,
...are you saying your published calendar can currently be accessed from your ical.me.com link and that just ours is not working or was your answer a theoretical one?
Mine works as advertised. I did have to unpublish, but that was in July. The calendar has auto published without problems since that time.
The common clue that I notice between the OP and your system is that neither has been updated to the most current version of OS X available for the Tiger/Leopard. I would therefore advise updating these systems using the appropriate Combo Update (OS X 10.4.11/OS X 10.5.5).
Good Luck.
;~)

ICal un-publishes every time I write a new event

Every time I write a new event in iCal it un-publishes it, even if I check the box for "publish events automatically." What is wrong? What do I have to do so I don't have to keep publishing it every time?

Greetings,
1. First make an iCal backup: Click on each calendar on the left hand side of iCal 1 at a time highlighting it's name and then going to File Export > Export and saving the resulting calendar file to a logical location for safekeeping.
2. Remove the following to the trash and restart your computer:
Home > Library > Caches > com.apple.ical
Home > Library > Calendars > Calendar Cache, Cache, Cache 1, 2, 3, etc. (Do not remove Sync Cache or Theme Cache if present)
Home > Library > Preferences > com.apple.ical (There may be more than one of these. Remove them all.)
---NOTE: Removing these files may remove any shared (CalDAV) calendars you may have access to. You will have to re-add those calendars to iCal > Preferences > Accounts.
Once the computer is back up and running open iCal and test.
Hope that helps.

Publishing Calendar Group to .Mac Causes Duplications

I am running iCal 2.0 in Tiger. I have three calendars under the Calendar group "Published". I then publish the "Published" calendar group to my .Mac account. Every time I refresh the publication (which happens automatically with "auto-refresh") it duplicates every entry. This is repeatable so I can have four, five, etc. instances of the same event published. If I unsubscribe and republish, it starts over again.
This only affects the published calendars on the .Mac server (ical.mac.com), not any local or .Mac Sync calendars.
I'd appreciate any help.

I seem to have this working now, G5 and Powerbook both running the same iCal calendar which is syncronised. Both machines have publish switched on along with auto update.
One thing I noticed while testing this evening, the names I was originally publishing under were things like "Study Calendar" or "Myweb.net Calendar", when published using these types of names (spaces and punctuation) the .mac website calendar always had a last updated time of 1970.
When I republished the calendar using a single word name like "Calendar", the published date was correct on the website.
Once I saw the publish day as being correct, I turned on auto update and proceeded to make changes in iCal on both the PB and the G5. All the changes thus far have been syncronised correctly between the machine AND with the website without duplication.
I am not sure if this is a long term solution as I've only been testing for 10 minutes or so. Perhaps the duplications will come back after a while but its certainly something to look into if your publishing your calendar with names longer than one word or with punctuation.
Cheers
Zeni

How can I combine multiple icloud calendars into a single published calendar?

I have several calendars in Ical where I map my activities and schedules. Like many I need several calendars to categorise events.
Now, I'd like others to see when I'm free and when I'm unavailable. For this, I'd need to find a way to copy multiple Icloud calendars into a single one for publishing - and the published calendar would also have to sync to any update I make in the original calendar.
Any way to make this happen? Any third party app? Tried a couple - they were outdated and / or cumbersome.
If only there was a "smart calendar" tool in Ical …

It worked - up to the crucial point: after combining icloud calendars into one "on the machine" calendar, the latter is ready for going public. But of course - this public calendar will only contain the .ics files and will not sync for updates from the icloud calendars.
And that's what I want.
If this problem is not possible to solve with the software available in the Mac - is there any known third party solution for this?
(Apple: "smart calendars" please!)

Ical not publishing to dotmac--new information

Hello, I have been having a hard time with icalendar not publishing on dotmac. It started happening suddenly on my upgrade to 10.5.2.
The dotmac support people have been responding to my inquiries with the following suggestions (eached bumped to a higher level):
1) unpublish and republish--nope doesn't work
2) corrupted file, remake the calendar (which means re enter every entry)
3) the most recent is that my file size (1.9 mbytes) can't be published on ical.
Has anyone heard this before? It is news to me, and google and forum searches have not indication of a limit to ical file sizes for dotmac publication.
Now it seems my choices are:
1) Try to find a way to bulk delete old events (there have been some messed up syncs with missing sync that have created a lot of repeated events). There are literally thousands of individual events that have to be deleted over the 5 years I have been using ical.
2) Re enter my dates in a new calendar going forward and publish that new calendar. Frankly, that seems easiest, but I have to admit being peeved at the undocumented file limit.
It is not a matter of my idisk size or anything like that. According to the tech " and can see that it has a file size of 2 MB. I'm sorry, but your calendar is too large to be rendered on a web browser. iCal publishing is intended primarily for personal use, and not as a means of publishing such a large and complex schedule.
I'm very sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. To decrease the size and complexity of your calendars, you might consider decreasing the event repetition, or splitting the events from one calendar into several smaller calendars."
So, anyone have any pointers?

I'm also having this problem. Lots of things seem to be broken in 10.5.5. I see that iCal last published my calendar in August 2008. Spotlight no longer seems to be indexing iPhoto. I wonder what else doesn't work. Most aggravating is that Apple never seems to acknowledge these problems. As mysteriously as they came, they might go away. It just works => That's just the way it works!

Missing "dtend" entries on .ics files for a published calendar

From the top... I am using iCal Version 2.0.5 (1069), Mac OS X 10.4.10, and The Missing Sync for Palm OS v6.0.1; also the MarkSpace Events and Tasks conduits to sync my Palm with iCal via iSync.
My goal is to publish a grouped calendar to icalx.com (which I've used for years).
When I publish the calendar, everything appears to transfer fine, and I can see the published calendars on icalx.com.
HOWEVER, most events in the graphical views (such as day or week) appear to have lost their end times, and thus stretch to 11:59 PM that day (which would be the default).
I have examined the .ics file that icalx.com is receiving from my local iCal app, and it appears that on many of the events there is no entry for DTEND (the date and time when an event ends). There is an entry for DTSTART. I experimented with changing the end time for an event in iCal, and then refreshing the published calendar. The result is that DTEND is now defined, and the event shows up properly. Simply entering the same event ending time in the end time field does not result in a proper ending time on the icalx.com calendar. Changing the end time in iCal by dragging the lower boundary of the event box DOES modify the time properly on the icalx.com calendar.
What is perplexing is that the proper start and end times ARE shown in iCal, and on my Palm.
Has this kind of behavior been seen by others? Any hints on how to correct it, or where to start?
Thanks everyone for your help.

OK, previously I went to the online version and clicked on the "Download" link in the left column, but I did not know if I re-published from the downloaded calender, would it replace/over-write the existing calendar or create a new.1.ics file.
I think I had tried this before, and the version I was updating, did not seem to update the version others had subscribed to, even though, I thought, I had re-published the same calendar.
Anyway, I have tested the "new" re-published calendars and they seem to be updating for the subscribers too.
Is there a way to make sure that I don't have any orphaned calendars? Some of the calendars have changed names and I was wondering if I am able to what is exactly sitting on my ME account. I can't find any of the calendars when I log into the account.
Any thoughts?
Thanks
Gary

Remove "time" from Month view on Published Calendar

I am trying to remove the time from published calendars when in the "Month" view. The time is not showing on ical on the computer... but shows up on the published calendar. This is taking up tooooo much room on the calendar.
Thank you for any assistance.

Hi HWTheoB,
In my opinion, you could add a content editor web part to your listview page, then in the "source editor" property of your CEWP you can type <style>.ms-cal-monthitem
B {display:none}</style>.
In addition, for the similar issue, you can refer to the following threads, although it is for SharePoint 2007, but you can get some hints from these articles:
Remove the time in calendar list
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointcustomization/thread/c7f6070b-1c91-48bf-be4d-3b4dabd8338d
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http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointcustomization/thread/896d9aa2-2d98-42e2-8286-90b4a14ad31d
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Regards, Rock Wang Microsoft Online Community Support

Publish calendar to mobileme no longer works

I've been publishing a calendar in iCal to mobileme for several years. After upgrading to Snow Leopard, I noticed that the publishing was not working (the icon next to the calendar in iCal indicated an error). So I unpublished and republished. I was told it was successful and give me that window with a button to view the published calendar. When I do that, Safari goes to the site but prints a message, telling me "We're sorry but we cannot find the iCal you've requested. It's possible that it has been deleted or renamed."
I cut and paste the address into Safari - the URL that I was provided after a successful publish, and again got the same error. I've unpublished several times and republished, always successfully - so I was informed when the calendar was sent. But I always get the same error reported.
I've gone to my mobileme via browser to check my iDisk and other features - they all work. My iCal is even correct when viewed. It's just the published calendar that can't be accessed.
Anyone know what's going on or have a suggestion.
Thanks.
Well, I tried another search and have found a thread where users indicate the same problem. This seems to be a mobileme problem that I guess I'll have to wait until it is fixed.

Yep, same problem. Won't show up via browser and the embedded calendar won't display in iWeb. I've changed the calendar name, exported and imported (removing unsafe alarms), shortened the calendar name as to exclude any numerical or punctuation including spaces and nada. Next step is to friggin create a new calendar from scratch and re-enter all the dates/info...but I'd still like to know what the heck is going on.
Anybody have any other success besides creating a new calendar?
PS - Confirmed that establishing a new calendar clears up the problem. The fun of data entry for all those appointments...
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How do you know if your ical is published? Or find out, I have an iCloud account, I don't want my info to be public?

How can you tell if your ical is publish, I have an icloud account, I do not want other to see my calendar, all of my caledars are under icloud. Is this private? Wha is the best choice for your default calander?

If you have access to a Mac couldn't you receive your verification via iMessage and work to view you iCloud Account?

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